Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous